Yeah, I've experimented and find I'm mostly comfortable in third person limited (if sometimes alternating) narration (in past tense). It's interesting you say that the POV threw you. I was trying to carefully not be in characters heads...except for hammond in the beginning a bit and o'neill at the end.
I considered shifting between them in point of view, but I didn't want to focus on one over another of the threesome. It was the reaction of them all that equally mattered an being omniscient would be too much a mind trip for me as author or the reader, and also elevating the reaction of one over that of the others, even if I switched back and forth.
At least that's what I tried to do. The result may have been a flat less-emotional impact than moreso.
ETA: And re Makepeace. Yes, that commissary scene is my favorite moment with him. Because he did feel he was doing his duty, he just had a warped view of how best to achieve the SGC's mission. (The actor reportedly hated he became a traitor...aside from the fact he lost his gig, he didn't see it as part of Robert's character).
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Date: 2009-01-31 07:36 pm (UTC)I considered shifting between them in point of view, but I didn't want to focus on one over another of the threesome. It was the reaction of them all that equally mattered an being omniscient would be too much a mind trip for me as author or the reader, and also elevating the reaction of one over that of the others, even if I switched back and forth.
At least that's what I tried to do. The result may have been a flat less-emotional impact than moreso.
ETA: And re Makepeace. Yes, that commissary scene is my favorite moment with him. Because he did feel he was doing his duty, he just had a warped view of how best to achieve the SGC's mission. (The actor reportedly hated he became a traitor...aside from the fact he lost his gig, he didn't see it as part of Robert's character).